{"id":13298,"date":"2011-03-23T19:43:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-23T19:43:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-03-23T19:50:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T19:50:37","slug":"democracy-for-america-endorses-debra-bowen-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/23\/democracy-for-america-endorses-debra-bowen-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy For America Endorses Debra Bowen For Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Dean&#8217;s Democracy For America, a PAC with over a million members nationwide, announced today they&#8217;re endorsing Debra Bowen for Congress.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/><i>We asked DFA members where they stood in the upcoming special election for Congress and the answer couldn&#8217;t have been more clear &#8212; DFA members overwhelmingly support Debra Bowen.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of DFA members in the district voted in our member poll and 70 percent of DFA members said that we should endorse Debra. So today, I am honored to announce our endorsement of Debra Bowen for Congress. <a href=\"http:\/\/action.debrabowen.com\/p\/salsa\/web\/common\/public\/signup?signup_page_KEY=4503&amp;track=dfa0323&amp;tag=dfa0323\">join the campaign today &#8212; Volunteer to put Debra Bowen over the top in the May 17 special election.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You already know Debra Bowen. DFA members across California worked hard for a national endorsement when Debra ran for Secretary of State in 2006. Local DFA members said Debra was a strong progressive who would lead reform of California&#8217;s voting system from top to bottom. Her goal was to turn California into a world leader in voter integrity and protection.<\/p>\n<p>We heard you loud and clear and together we worked to make sure Debra won. And you were right, Debra has been an outstanding Secretary of State and she&#8217;ll make an outstanding Congresswoman for California&#8217;s 36th District.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/action.debrabowen.com\/p\/salsa\/web\/common\/public\/signup?signup_page_KEY=4503&amp;track=dfa0323&amp;tag=dfa0323\"> Join DFA members across the district in supporting Debra Bowen for Congress &#8212; Sign up to volunteer today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working together, we can put Debra over the top on Election Day and send a progressive leader to Congress.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2010, DFA endorsed Marcy Winograd in her bid against Jane Harman. This is the second independent progressive organization to make the switch. In February, Blue America announced they would be <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/page\/blueamerica12\">supporting Debra Bowen<\/a> in the race instead of Winograd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Dean&#8217;s Democracy For America, a PAC with over a million members nationwide, announced today they&#8217;re endorsing Debra Bowen for Congress.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<br \/><i>We asked DFA members where they stood in the upcoming special election for Congress and the answer couldn&#8217;t have been more clear &#8212; DFA members overwhelmingly support Debra Bowen.<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of DFA members in the district voted in our member poll and 70 percent of DFA members said that we should endorse Debra. So today, I am honored to announce our endorsement of Debra Bowen for Congress. <a href=\"http:\/\/action.debrabowen.com\/p\/salsa\/web\/common\/public\/signup?signup_page_KEY=4503&amp;track=dfa0323&amp;tag=dfa0323\">join the campaign today &#8212; Volunteer to put Debra Bowen over the top in the May 17 special election.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You already know Debra Bowen. DFA members across California worked hard for a national endorsement when Debra ran for Secretary of State in 2006. Local DFA members said Debra was a strong progressive who would lead reform of California&#8217;s voting system from top to bottom. Her goal was to turn California into a world leader in voter integrity and protection.<\/p>\n<p>We heard you loud and clear and together we worked to make sure Debra won. And you were right, Debra has been an outstanding Secretary of State and she&#8217;ll make an outstanding Congresswoman for California&#8217;s 36th District.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/action.debrabowen.com\/p\/salsa\/web\/common\/public\/signup?signup_page_KEY=4503&amp;track=dfa0323&amp;tag=dfa0323\"> Join DFA members across the district in supporting Debra Bowen for Congress &#8212; Sign up to volunteer today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Working together, we can put Debra over the top on Election Day and send a progressive leader to Congress.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2010, DFA endorsed Marcy Winograd in her bid against Jane Harman. This is the second independent progressive organization to make the switch. In February, Blue America announced they would be <a href=\"https:\/\/secure.actblue.com\/page\/blueamerica12\">supporting Debra Bowen<\/a> in the race instead of Winograd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5849,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[9614,125,501,171,5822],"class_list":["post-13298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-9614","tag-125","tag-501","tag-171","tag-5822"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3su","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}